River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-06-16
GHOST STORIES.

An Englishman, who was recently in
Kansas City on a business trip, dreamed
one night that he was walking rapidly
up the main street Of the village Of Sun
appropriateness, the home of his moth
er, in England. On arriving at the
door of his mothers house he saw that
Grape was tied to the knob, and that
the shutters were closed and the blinds
drawn. He related the dream to a
friend at breakfast in the morning. and
then dismissed it from his mind. In the
afternoon he received a cablegram from
his brother announcing that his mother
had died suddenly the night before
A lady of Ellaville, Ga, who had
just recovered from serious illness, ex-
pressed a desire one day to have a quail
or partridge served for her dinner.
The market was secured, but none
could be found. and, as the patient re-
fused to take any other nourishment,
her physician was in aquandary Sud
denly partridge came iiuttering down
the chimney and fell limp and lifeless
on the open hearth in her bed room.
The bird was dressed and cooked, the
lady enjoyed it immensely and tho ply
stefan was greatly edited by the occur
renee.
a ghost has been performing
strange antics in the old brick school
house on Green street, in Middletown,
Conn, and the citizens are being much
wrought up over the matter. The
phantom is supposed to be that of old
Richard Hyland, the eccentric janitor of
the building, who died recently, and
whose spirit now fits through the
empty rooms of the school house at
night and lights them up with unearth-
" light People who live near the
school house have seen the old fellow
poke his grim visage through the
windows at night and then. retiring to
the tops Of the desks, dance an uncan-
ny war dance there in the glare of
ghostly light. The children refuse TO
20 to the school any longer, and the af-
fair is to be investigated.
Mrs. Gordon's little boy, of Cairo,
H., acted strangely one morning
week ago and was put to bed. Sud-
denly he called to his mother and said;
Papa has come back That
is foolish talk, Charlie, said his
mother; '.your papa is dead and can
not come back. .But he's sitting on
your chair there and laughing at you"
said the boy. Thinking that the child
was becoming delirious Mrs. Gordon
sent for doctor. but while the mes
senger was absent the little fellow said:
Papa tells me that John won't find
the doctor at home, and that you must
now kiss me goodbye" A moment
later the child became unconscious and
soon died, while the messenger on his
return reported that the physician was
out of town.
The strange manifestations of ghost
ly spirits in Shelby county Mimi, have
excited the good farmers living there
and one of the wealthiest of them.
Lorenzo Powell, is preparing TO aban-
don his home because of the disturb
ances. Something over year ago his
daughter. to please her father, married
a man she despised, while the lover TO
whom she had given her heart was
forbidden the hoase. Recently she
died in childbirth and ever since the
sound of shrieks and groans has pro-
ceeded by night from the room which
she occupied, and at times the spirit of
the young woman has come to the
bedside of the old farmer, and with !
heart-rending sobs upbraided him for
his hard-hcarted obstinacy. Powell |
wife left the house some tine ago and |
he himself, unable to endure the strain
any longer, IS getting ready to seek
relief in n new home.
At a recent seance in San Francisco
Mrs. j. j. Whitney gave an interest
ing account of the circumstances which |
brought about her conversion to the
spiritualisti1 faith. Her son Harry, she
said. was brakeman on the Central
Pacific Railroad and was killed in a col
lision which occurred three years ago.
He had been in the habit of kissing her
rs he left the house for his work IN the
morning, bat on the day of the accident
neglected to do so. She called to him
rs he passed through the gate, but he
shouted back: Never mind, mother;
I'm in a hurry now, and I'll give you
three kisses when | come home That
night he came to her bedside and kissed
her thrice Awakening her husband,
Mrs. Whitney told him of the circum-
stance. but he refused to believe it. 1t
was then two o'clock in the morning
and ut five messenger brought the
news Of Harry's death At the inquest
il was ascertained that he died at just
two o'clock. Subsequently Mrs. Whit
ncy was visited at night on several occa-
sions by her son, who seemed, she said.
to be clothed in the garments of inn
mortality, his eyes sparkling, his cheeks
glowing and an aureola of light play
ing about his head.